I use Photoshop Elements and I've used Photoshop 6 (and 7). Currently I'm engaged in an on-again off-again project to digitize a couple hundred family photos and burn them to a CD so that the whole family can share them.

One picture was taken (dated by the rip-off, one day at a time calendar on the wall) as the Sunday two weeks before the attack at Pearl Harbor. We knew the place it was taken and the two men in the photo, but the right half of the picture had gone white (most of these were developed in home darkrooms). When it was scanned, a picture of my late Aunt Helen appeared in ghostly outline -- we'd recovered something that had been utterly lost!

A couple weeks ago I scanned pictures of petroglyphs which had been taken about 1906. No surprises, but I've now renovated photos which were fading away -- they're currently in the sepia stage.

I've also digitally altered various things -- logos, for instance. These were done for work.

Have I done other things? Yes, for practice. I put the face of good friend on a dominatrix and sent it to my friend -- she loved it and sent it on to her daughters as "Mom's new profession." I also delighted my 10 year old nephew by turning him into a vampire (photographically, I mean).

I most emphatically wouldn't do anything to alter anything substantial. Faking a photo, such as moving Kerry closer to Hanoi Jane, is beyond the pale.